| Product Summary | | Label: LOUD | | UPC: 00088561181529 | | Release Date: 8/10/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60371588 | | Item#: M9HQH7 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24555 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Intro ~ Big Punisher |  | | 2. Beware ~ Big Punisher | | | 3. Super Lyrical - (featuring Black Thought) ~ Big Punisher | | | 4. Taster's Choice - (skit) ~ Big Punisher | | | 5. Still Not A Player - (featuring JOE) ~ Big Punisher | | | 6. Intermission ~ Big Punisher | | | 7. Dream Shatterer, The ~ Big Punisher | | | 8. Punish Me - (featuring Miss Jones) ~ Big Punisher | | | 9. Pakinamac Pt. I - (skit) ~ Big Punisher | | | 10. You Ain't A Killer ~ Big Punisher | | | 11. Pakinamac Pt. II - (skit) ~ Big Punisher | | | 12. Caribbean Connection - (featuring Wyclef) ~ Big Punisher | | | 13. Glamour Life - (featuring Fat Joe/Terror Squad) ~ Big Punisher | | | 14. Capital Punishment - (featuring Prospect) ~ Big Punisher | | | 15. Uncensored - (skit, featuring Funkmaster Flex) ~ Big Punisher | | | 16. I'm Not A Player ~ Big Punisher | | | 17. Twinz (Deep Cover 98) - (featuring Fat Joe) ~ Big Punisher | | | 18. Rain & The Sun, The - (interlude, featuring Dead Prez) ~ Big Punisher | | | 19. Boomerang ~ Big Punisher | | | 20. You Came Up - (featuring Noreaga) ~ Big Punisher | | | 21. Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy) - (featuring Prodigy/Inspectah Deck) ~ Big Punisher | | | 22. Charlie Rock Shout - (skit) ~ Big Punisher | | | 23. Fast Money ~ Big Punisher | | | 24. Parental Discretion - (featuring Busta Rhymes) ~ Big Punisher | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Big Punisher, Fat Joe, Wyclef, Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Noreaga, Miss Jones, JOE, Triple Seis, Armageddon, Cuban Link, Prospect, Dead Prez, Prodigy, Inspektah Deck (rap vocals); Funkmaster Flex (spoken vocals); Roc Raida (scratches). | | Producers include: Ju-Ju, Rockwilder, Knobody, Mike Zulu, Domingo. | | Engineers include: Ken "Duro" Ifil, Adam Kudzin, Soundboy. | | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Album. | | Prepare to be punished. Loud Records presents the newest MC mastermind, Big Pun. The latest spin-off from the Bronx-born Terror Squad (first introduced by Fat Joe), Pun's quick-tongued delivery and witty lyrics have earned him a highly anticipated debut album, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. | | Punisher blew up the spot with the street anthem "I'm Not A Player," the remix of which featured R&B singer JOE and helped gain commercial success for the Puerto Rican rapper. Both versions are featured on CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, in addition to other evidence of the artist's diversity. In addition to Big Pun's skills, the album contains some of the hottest upcoming talent in hip-hop, with MCs like Noreaga and the Wu-Tang's Rebel INS appearing as guests. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/28/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 1815 | | Label : Loud (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 71m : 53s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00088561181529 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (7/17/98, p.85)
- "Everything abou this Bronx-bred Puerto Rican rapper is generous, his 400-pound girth, his multiple rhyming within each line, and his talent for spewing out verses without stopping for breath..." - Rating: BQ (6/00, p.123)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Displaying huge lyrical prowess and the requisite 'sensitive' side...[the album] established Pun as a serious rival to Biggie Smalls and something of a ladykiller to boot....funk and fun aplenty....Outrageously good." The Source (6/98, p.159)
- 4 Mics (out of 5)
- "...He'll rhyme every possible word in a line because he wants to be twice as nice....CAPITAL PUNISHMENT's all about execution..." Rap Pages (9/98, p.120)
- 4 (out of 5)
- "...Big Pun is at his best with all barrels firing bullets lacing the air like embroidery on grandmama's quilt..." |
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